Powerball 03.23 - Team Challenge Info

[prisca]

The participation in the team challenge is optional; if you don't want to participate, you can tell me, when signing up for Powerball, and you won't get assigned to a team. But keep in mind that in this case, you will miss the chance to earn more points.

Important Links
Team Alpha
Team Omega
Team Scores

Rules
There will be two cards for every team, each of them running for six weeks.


Every team will get a 5x5 square card with an extra vertical line for the powerballs.

As a team, you will try to fill all 25 squares from your card. You can fill the prompts in any order.

Optional
You don't need to fill the powerball prompts to complete the card.
When you have completed the first horizontal line, one member of the team can fill the powerball 'red' to double the team points earned for this line.
There won't be individual points for filling powerball prompts.

The same will apply to completing the second and fourth horizontal lines.

Allowed Work Types
Fics/Meta: minimum 100 words
Poems: minimum 1 Haiku or similar
Icons: 100x100 px (DW standard)
Other Graphics (banner, wallpaper, or similar): minimum 450 px width x height (e.g. 150 px x 300 px sig tag, or a 100 px x 350 px banner)
There is no maximum.

You may create fandom works, original works, and real-person works.

Every team member can fill up to two prompts every week.

Every prompt can be filled up to three times; every fill will count. Powerball prompts can only be filled once.

Points
Every filled prompt is worth 2 points (team and individual) for the winning team and 1 point for the second winner. If, after six weeks, no team has finished the card, the team with the most finished squares (not posted works) is the winner.

Changed on Sunday, September 3, after the first week. I have realized that after allowing 2 prompts per participant and 3 uses of every prompt in this round, it doesn't make much sense anymore to cling to the old points rules.

So I have decided to make some changes.

Every filled prompt is worth one point (team and individual) from now on.
Filled power balls double the earned team points for a line.
The first team finishing all squares on the card will earn 10 extra team points. The second team finishing the card will earn 6 extra points.

All points will get counted after six weeks (card one) and at the end of the Powerball Challenge (card two). While both cards will count for themself, the final winner is the team who earned the most points with card one plus card two.

Posting
For the team challenge, you are allowed to make two single posts every week. But if you prefer to put both works in one post, that's fine, too.

Please make a note in the subject line = WEEK x - TEAM and tag the work with your team tag.

Important You can start filling squares in week one. You will earn individual and team points. But please remember that all your individual points are put on hold until you have participated for at least three weeks in the regular Powerball challenge until November 18!

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For any questions, please go here

Comments

[tinny]

For the team challenge, you are allowed to make single posts.

I don't understand this sentence. Does this mean I can make one single post with more than one fill in it per week? But I can still also make separate posts for each fill, right?

[prisca]

When posting for the regular challenge, you are not allowed to post your single works but make one main work for every prompt.

For the team challenge, you are allowed to make 2 single posts every week (one for every prompt).

[tinny]

Ha, okay, i had it completely wrong. Thanks for clearing it up.

(I'd like to just post my two weekly team icons in one post, so I'll go do that now.)

[pattrose]

ON the team challenge, It was 2 the first week, 2 the second week and only one for the third week. Do you know why? I did send in two little stories for the team.

[prisca]

Your second fill for week three was a powerball fill, so it is 1 (1) in the score list.

[pattrose]

Thank you.